| Description |
1 online resource : 108 illustrations, 8 in color |
| Contents |
Introduction / Mostow, Joshua S. -- Gender in Japanese art / Kaori, Chino -- The image of women in battle scenes: "sexually" imprinted bodies / Shinobu, Ikeda -- The gender of Wakashu and the grammar of desire / Mostow, Joshua S. -- Marketing desire: advertising and sexuality in Edo literature, drama, and art / Pollack, David -- Westernizing bodies: women, art, and power in Meiji Yāga / Bryson, Norman -- Icons of femininity: Japanese national painting and the paradox of modernity / Croissant, Doris -- Images of women in national art exhibitions during the Korean colonial period / Hyeshin, Kim -- The otherness of women in the avant-garde film woman in the Dunes / Kimura-Steven, Chigusa -- Gender in contemporary Japanese art / Borggreen, Gunhild -- Busty battlin' babes: the evolution of the Shōjo in 1990s visual culture / Orbaugh, Sharalyn |
| Summary |
In this, the first collection in English of feminist-oriented research on Japanese art and visual culture, an international group of scholars examines representations of women in a wide range of visual work. The volume begins with Chino Kaori's now-classic essay "Gender in Japanese Art," which introduced feminist theory to Japanese art. This is followed by a closer look at a famous thirteenth-century battle scroll and the production of bijin (beautiful women) prints within the world of Edo-period advertising. A rare homoerotic picture-book is used to extrapolate the "grammar of desire" as represented in late seventeenth-century Edo. In the modern period, contributors consider the introduction to Meiji Japan of the Western nude and oil-painting and examine Nihonga (Japanese-style painting) and the role of one of its famous artists. The book then shifts its focus to an examination of paintings produced for the Japanese-sponsored annual salons held in colonial Korea. The postwar period comes under scrutiny in a study of the novel Woman in the Dunes and its film adaptation. The critical discourse that surrounded women artists of the late twentieth-century--the "Super Girls of Art"--Is analyzed, followed by a consideration of gender ambiguity and cross-gender identification in contemporary anime and manga. Contributors: Grunhild Borggreen, Norman Bryson, Chino Kaori, Doris Croissant, Ikeda Shinobu, Kim Hye-shin, Chigusa Kimura-Steven, Joshua S. Mostow, Sharalyn Orbaugh, David Pollack |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan gnd |
| Subject |
Feminism and the arts -- Japan
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Gender identity in art.
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Women in art.
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Arts, Japanese.
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ART -- General.
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Arts, Japanese
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Feminism and the arts
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Gender identity in art
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Women in art
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Frauenkunst
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Geschlechterrolle
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Kunst
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Beeldende kunsten.
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Vrouwen.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Feminisme.
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Japan
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Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bryson, Norman, editor
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Graybill, Maribeth, editor
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Mostow, Joshua S., editor
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| LC no. |
2002152312 |
| ISBN |
9780824841577 |
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0824841573 |
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